Prabodhi G. Mildenberg

Prabodhi, how and when were you introduced to Pulsation?I had my first taste of Reichian bodywork as a law student in Freiburg,Germany in 1982. In the Osho center there they offered evening groups, in Bio-energetics and Rebirthing. In one of the first sessions the leader, Andrea, was giving individual sessions in the group and I found myself lying on a mattress--22 years old with no previious experience of anything--and breathing. At some point she touched my body and a high loud scream came out of my mouth. I was so surprised and baffled, and that experience impressed me deeply. Over time I also felt the immense expansion possible through my breathing - I was hooked.A few years later, I participated in a 3 year training in Orgodynamik, also a method that was very much based on Reich’s bodywork and his discovery of orgone energy. I later went to Pune, and following my love of movement and dance and did the dance therapy training and then got involved in the AFH Process. I eventually did the Hypnosis training, which led me to create my own NLP and Hypnosis institute for 10 years.Then, in 2002, Aneesha invited me to attend the next Pulsation Training. After working intensely with "the mind“ for so many years, my longing to go back to the body was becoming stronger, and I also wanted to bring the understanding that body and mind are one, more and more into my work.

What made you fall in love with the work?That Pulsation Training was strong, and it came just at the perfect moment in my life. I felt so much release, so much tension leaving my body, so many tears being cried - creating an inner space, a sense of expansion. Ahhhhh…In that time Aneesha had remarked that for her, the most valuable thing that she had done was the required fifty individual sessions that she had received from her own neo-Reichian teacher Charles Kelley in the 70s. I remember asking, “one five? or five zero???”. Fifty sessions seemed such a huge number!!For days that conversation kept coming back into my mind and I decided to also do those 50 sessions. For the next 3 years I studied, participated, helped, translated, assisted and 2004/5 was co-leading a pulsation training in Hamburg.

What is it about Pulsation that works for your clients?I had started leading my own Pulsation evening group, and I became aware that many of my NLP and Hypnosis clients would greatly benefit from some Pulsation work. Many of them had trained their intellect and were successful in the world, but had suppressed their emotions and impulses so much that the body was rebelling. Many were functioning but had lost the joy of life, were moving fast towards a burn-out, were depressed and didn‘t know what to do. So that was how the Hamburg training came to life.After 9 years of intense working with pulsation, what really, deep down works is the contact. The real relationship, the willingness and capability to create a field.In all these years I have continued my own personal work. I had the immense luck to find a Reichian therapist in Hamburg and I have been working with her ever since. My own experience of deep inner healing, of layers of anxiety and fear dissolving, moments of deep inner contentment, waves of joy.It‘s such a different attitude to life (Lebensgefühl) - it‘s difficult to put into words. I keep having waves of deep gratitude.

Why are you doing the work?I feel I have received such a great gift that I have the urge to pass it on, to share this expansion with other human beings in a deep and meaningful relationship. To see the slow dissolution of armouring in my clients, how their eyes become more clear, more and more feeling, how they are able to bring their feelings into their eyes and into contact, how they are able to express themselves differently and how their quality of their contact with me changes - that is what makes this work for me so precious and unique.And from being a client came my most precious learnings. It was never the so called exercises that did anything real deep. Never. It was the human authentic being there of my therapist - sometimes "just“ the tender loving touch on my face that brought to the surface the deep release of inner pain.From all the trainings and all the work I have done, I believe that the Reichian training is the longest and the most ardous and demanding for the student. You have to go through your own de-armoring process and that needs a lot of inner comittment and unwavering dedication. Otherwise you will be just another so called neo-Reichian therapist hooked on the surface, doing "exercises“ in a mechanical way - actually the most un-Reichian thing you can do!And - if you stick with it - it‘s the most rewarding work, it makes you laugh and cry - it opens your heart beyond the sentimental, into deep human love.In those moments I always remember Oshos words: "The only thing that really heals is love"